Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:22:11 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Allow 8250 to work on sparc. |
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> At the user level, there is no difference between a sun zilog serial port, > an 8250 serial port or a USB serial port so these should be allocated > using the same allocation system.
That isn't strictly true.
> For me, it would also simplify the issue of trying to work what devive to > look for when I plug in a new USB serial port device. It would be the new > /dev/ttyS<x> to appear in /dev.
Naming is a private matter for udev anyway, independant of numbering for major/minor
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